THE CONGRESS: Down with the Dole

On the floor of the House one afternoon
last week, Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills manfully walked over and
reached out a congratulatory hand to Republican Whip Leslie Arends of
Illinois. Arends smiled broadly, said: "Sorry to do this to you,
Wilbur." What Arends and his G.O.P. colleagues had done was indeed
worth a handshake. With a remarkable rebuke to Ways & Means Chairman
Mills, the House, after two days of strenuous debate, voted down a $1.5
billion Democratic proposal for extending unemployment compensation
benefits that President Eisenhower had called "a dole." Passed...